Table 1 Top journals read by the sampled clinicians and article count

Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic & Related Surgery

88

International Journal of Medical Informatics

29

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

84

PLoS Medicine

27

British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Ed.)

84

Archives of Internal Medicine

27

New England Journal of Medicine

78

Annals of Internal Medicine

27

Journal of the American Medical Association

76

Spine

26

Science

57

BMC Medical Research Methodology

26

The Lancet

57

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

25

Medical Education

54

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

25

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

54

Anesthesia and Analgesia

25

Journal of Clinical Pathology

53

American Journal of Sports Medicine

24

PloS One

50

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

24

Pain Medicine (Malden, Mass.)

48

Statistics in Medicine

24

Medical Teacher

48

Chest

24

Nature

44

American Journal of Roentgenology

24

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American volume)

42

Journal of General Internal Medicine

23

Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

39

Biological Psychiatry

23

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (British volume)

38

Journal of Arthroplasty

22

Pediatrics

37

American Journal of Psychiatry

22

BMC Medical Education

37

Journal of Palliative Medicine

22

NeuroImage

34

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

22

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

33

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

22

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

32

Sociology of Health & Illness

20

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

32

Radiology

20

Clinical Infectious Diseases

32

Orthopedics

20

Critical Care Medicine

31

Drug Safety: An International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Drug Experience

20

Social Science & Medicine

29

Critical Care (London, England)

20

Pain Physician

29

Total: 1,933